Household reminder turn knob



Jan. 15, 1963 w. E. MCCLINTICK 3,073,281

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A T TORNEY United States tet 3,073,281 HOUSEHOLD REMINDER TURN KNOB William E. McCliutick, 2116 W. Moss St., Peoria, Ill. Filed Oct. 19, 1960, Ser. No. 63,539 1 Claim. (Cl. 116-133) This invention relates to a household reminder and more particularly to the turn knobs therefor.

It is the principal object of the present invention to provide a household reminder formed of a support board bearing a list of various household items which may at any time be needed for the household and a turn knob lying adjacent each item and having an extension to point toward a selected item when turned from a vertical position to a horizontal position so that the board can be read at the time when determining the household shopping that is to be done.

It is another object of the invention to provide a turn knob that can be easily and readily assembled upon the board and to make for the simplicity of construction and operation of the board.

It is still another object of the invention to provide a turn knob formed of sheet metal struck and bent to have a pointing shoulder and retaining extensions that can be bent to hold the turn knob against outward or inward displacement yet free to be rotated and wherein the assembly of the turn knob will be effected by simply bending the retaining extensions against the rear surface of the board.

Other objects of the invention are to provide a household reminder board and the turn knobs therefor, which are of simple construction, inexpensive to manufacture, easy to assemble, has a minimum number of parts, of pleasing appearance, light in weight, compact, eflicient and effective in use.

For a better understanding of the invention, reference may be had to the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which FIGURE 1 is a plan view of a household reminder with the turn knobs thereon, some of which turn knobs having been turned to various household items that are needed upon the next trip to the market,

FIG. 2 is an enlarged top plan view of the turn knobs being used on the household reminder shown in FIG. 1,

FIG. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken through the turn knob of FIGS. 1 and 2, and as viewed on line 3 of FIG. 1,

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a modified form of a turn knob,

FIG. 5 is a vertical elevational view of the modified form of turn knob shown in FIG. 4 that is fixed to a hole in a reminder board by its retaining extensions,

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of another modified form of a turn knob in which the retaining extensions are provided by bending the struck piece upon itself in a hairpinlike manner, and

FIG. 7 is an elevational view of the turn knob shown in FIG. 6 secured to the opening in a reminder board for free turning.

Referring now to the figures, 10 represents a reminder board suitable to be suspended from a nail or screw on the wall. The upper end of the board has an extension 11 in which there is a hole 12 for receiving the nail or screw extending from the wall surface.

The board 10 has various legends 13 extending in two columns and listing numerous items which one operating a household needs for maintaining the household. There are two columns of items and beside each item in both columns is a turn knob 14. This turn knob 14 has a screw shank 15 that is threaded tightly into the reminder board 10, FIG. 3 and a pointer extension 16 that is locked to the turn knob and is turned thereby so that the pointer is moved from between a vertically-extending position to a horizontal position pointing toward the item legend. The householder will turn these knobs to their horizontal indicating positions from time to time as she discovers a need for an item and will observe when she goes to the store the number of pointers that are extended to the items as will be noted in FIG. 1 and these items can be taken down as the ones being needed in the household. The reminder board 10 may be of such size that it can be taken to the store with the buyer and the needed items observed there. When the item has been purchased and brought to the household, the turn knob 14 can be turned so that the pointer 16 will be again in its vertically-extended position. As illustrated in FIG. 2, the turn knob is turned to the right from the vertical position in the direction of the arrow 17 to a dotted line horizontal or indicating position 16' and is held there due to the tight fit of the screw shank 15 of the turn knob in the board.

In FIGS. 4 and 5, there is shown a modified form of a turn knob formed of a single piece sheet material and fixed to a board 20 so as to be turned. This board can be of the shape shown in FIG. 1, but preferably slightly thinner since it has an opening 21 through which this knob indicated generally at 22 is extended and fastened and in which it can be turned. This turn knob is cut or struck from sheet metal to provide a hand grip portion 23, and a pointer projection 24 providing shoulder 25 and a coextensive shoulder 26 adapted to rest against the top surface of the board 10. The pointer projection will as the pointer extension 16 of the first form of the invention, be turned so as to be directed toward any one of the listed items 13 that will be printed upon the board 20.

Depending from the shoulders 25 and 26, is an extension 27 that is slit at 28 to provide two bendable extensions that can be bent in opposite directions as thus shown in FIG. 5 and as indicated at 27' and 27" to hold the turn knob 22 spring biased against outward displacement from the board yet permit the same to be turned and made of the same use as the turn knob 14. Thus, it will be seen there has been provided a turn knob that can be formed of a fiat piece of sheet material, the same being struck or cut therefrom, and which can be applied to various openings 21 in the board 22 by simply bending the split extensions 27' and 27" against the rear face of the board 20.

In FIGS. 6 and 7, there is shown a turn knob formed of a struck or cut blank folded upon itself to provide a knob hand grip portion 31 and two shoulder portions 32 and 33 respectively having extensions 34 and 35 which are bent outwardly as best shown in FIG. 7 and curved to lie against the rear face of a board 20 of less thickness than the board 10 and having the opening 21 as shown in FIG. 5 so that the turn knob is held against outward as well as inward displacement with the shoulders 32 and 33 engaging the front surface of the board. The extensions 34 and 35 of the shoulders 32 and 33 serve to indicate or point to the legends of household items that are wanted.

The extensions 27 and 27" of the form of the invention shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 and the extensions 34 and 35 of the form of the invention shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 are preferably bent to have a curvature so as to give some friction or tension of the turn button against the front face of the board and to hold the turn button in its adjusted position. The key is preferably made of sheet material, such as spring brass or other suitable, somewhat resilient metal. Some spring resisting action is had through its grip portion 31 causing the extensions 34 and 35 to grip the sides of the opening in addition to the side extensions 34 and 35 being bent to have the curvature 0 also to give resistance to the turning movement of the turn button.

It should now be apparent that there has been provided a simple houehold reminder in which the turn knobs are of simple construction with their indicating extensions being adapted to point toward the various legends on the board and to be held in the horizontal positions by the inherent frictional resistance of the knob in its connection with the reminder board.

While various changes may be made in the detail construction, it shall be understood that such changes shall be within the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claim.

What is claimed is:

A turn knob for a household reminder board and the like comprising a struck sheet folded upon itself to pro- References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 956,175 Rieckhofi Apr. 26, 1910 1,313,377 Hassel Aug. 19, 1919 2,827,872 Thoma Mar. 25, 1958 

